good morning, everybody. a live look to get you started at our nation's capital. after the muggy weekend that we had, we are off to cooler temperatures. tony is in this morning for tucker, early. >> early. i didn't know we went on at 4:25. >> you're rolling out of bed a little earlier today. >> you gave the headline away

there. cooler temperatures for today. going to be a more comfortable day after the heat and humidity of the weekend. we'll see temperatures right around or maybe even slightly below normal for today. we'll show what you is going on as we speak. 64degrees in the nation's capital. 60 at dulles airport. baltimore at 60 degrees. not too bad outside. there are some clouds out there and there are also some showers early this morning off to the north and west around front royal. you are get something shower activity and some of those showers may even make it into the beltway region. we'll have to wait and see how that twops during the next hour or so. later on, partly to mostly sunny skies. here is your forecast for today. partly to mostly sunny, a cooler day and less humid. how about that. high today after yesterday, i think we got up to 91.

high today, about 79 degrees. -- we'll have to wait and see how that develops during the next hour or so. take a look at this picture. this is a virginia man who is recovering from a hit and run boating accident on the chesapeake bay on saturday. he is 55-year-old mark gentile. he had gone into the water to retrieve a bait container when he was struck by a passing speedboat. the boat's propeller sliced his leg. montgomery county police arrested a man accused of taxing a pregnant woman in her home in dam as cause. 38-year-old woman is said to have caused the tax. police in baltimore are trying to figure out why an off

duty police officer shot and kill a former marine at a nightclub over the weekend. they think that tyrone brown groped the officer's girlfriend. the officer refused a breathalyzer. a cap under the gulf of mexico is collecting more and more oil this morning. engineers say it is capturing more than half the leaking oil but the coast guard warns the bat toll contain the leak is likely to stretch into the fall. for the first time, dead birds covered in oil are being reported in texas. oil globs are starting to wash up on the beaches of the florida panhandle. storms rolling through the midwest have killed at least seven people. the father of a valedictorian in ohio was among those skilled. in ill i, a major storm ripped through the central part of the state with a tornado destroying buildings and

uprooting trees. we have a look at a busy week this week. >> reporter: monday, apple's worldwide developer conference kick off. over 5,000 of the world's brightest developers are gathering in san francisco for the week-long event. consumers will have the opportunity to work one on one with apple engineers to try out new concepts and get answers to their questions. apple is expected to unveil its much-anticipated iphone 4 tb. tuesday, major primary election as cross the country. also on tuesday, the natalee holloway resource center opens in washington, d.c. the holloway family is launching the center in an effort to educate parents and students about safe travel as well as provide resources for families seeking missing persons abroad. the opening will come just days after the long-time suspect in natalee's case was arrested in connection to the brutal murder

a young woman in peru. friday, the first lady will address local d.c. graduates. my shoal obama will give a commencement speech at the anacostia senior high school. that is a look at the week ahead. we have much more still ahead. we have your weather, your traffic and all your top stories as we continue at 4:30. good morning to you. it is monday morning, june 7th, 2010. it is 4:30 with a live look at our nation's capital on get you started. cooler temperatures and the moon was gorgeous this morning. >> pretty moon and not bad outside right now and not bad later on today. much-kneed relief from the heat and humidity of the -- much- needed relief from the heat and humidity of the last several days. reagan national reporting a temperature of 64 degrees. the main thing is your relative humidity, 63%. that is nice.

that is a comfortable start to the day. not bad at all. winds are out of the northwest at seven miles per hour. let's take look at hd radar. there are a couple of showers out there. can you see them there off to the west of the district. not yet into leesburg but you will see some shower activity. frederick, maryland seeing a little bit of shower activity. front royal the focal point for the shower activity at this hour. we'll keep monitoring that. some to the north and west could see a shower or two during the early-morning hours. here is a look at the big picture as you go back to the graphics. there you go. it is another look at the precip and some of that cloud cover that will come streaming through giving us partly clear skies for the morning hours and more sunshine later on today. your forecast for today, not a bad one. mostly sun you, cooler, less humidity, high about 79 degrees. that is actually below normal. >> and you know what? it sounds just about perfect.

julie is in now with a first look at traffic on this monday morning. >> it is not looking so bad. i think a lot of the weather that came through yesterday scared off a lot of the construction that was expected last night. we do have a work zone or two to talk about on the beltway over near 236. if you are traveling on the beltway here at river road all lanes are open coming from 207 headed out towards tyson's. no problems to report off that inner loop leaving tyson corner headed up into bethesda. we are off day quiet start on this early monday morning. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. -- we are off to a quiet start on this early monday morning. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. a maryland man is lucky to an life following a frightening accident on the chesapeake bay. police say 55-year-old mark juno tile took a break if his fishing trip to go for a swim

on the bay. when he vent he ventured out to retrieve something, a speedboat came by and sliced through his leg. >> they kept on going. >> the incident happened near thomas point light between fishing creek and south river. witnesses told police a man and a woman were in the boat that hit gentile. a montgomery county woman accused of taxing a pregnant woman is expected to be in court. police a 38-year-old christine devoe attacked the woman at her home. the victim somehow got away and ran to a neighbor's home who

then called 911. police say devoe is a scientist would lives in monrovia. they describe the woman as friends or acquaintances. >> there isn't any kind of romance or anything like that involved. it is a more convoluted relationship than that. >> it is a quiet neighborhood. everybody gets along with each other. this is the first time i've heard of any crime around here. >> police arrested dev oa. at a frederick hotel. she is facing six charges in that attack. officers responded to a call of shots fired on w street southeast saturday night. there, they found 17-year-old deron lucas shot several times. so far, no word on the motive or any suspects in this case. police are offering a reward up to $5,000 for information leading to an arrest and a conviction. a former marine was killed

a at baltimore night will nightclub saturday night. 3 #-year-old tyrone brown was pronounced dead yesterday morning. police say he was shot by an officer who had a gun with him. the man was shot several times by an officer at the nightclub. >> i would actually feel better if my brother died in iraq versus coming home and dying. he doesn't cause harm to no one. he didn't mean any harm to nobody. that is why this is so ridiculous. >> baltimore police say the officer who shot brown is a 15- year veteran. he has been suspended with pay while internal fairs investigates. the coast guard is warning that the oil leak in the gulf may not be fully contained until this fall. british petroleum is planning to put another cap on top of the cap already there. engineers say this now sucking

up more than half the leaking oil. before a report. >> we smell it. it stinks bad. >> reporter: the oil keeps wash ago shore in florida. surfers watching out for the ooze and tar balls on the water. bp says it is you increasing the number of gallons of oil it is siphoning from the broken well. bp's top boss says it will try a second containment cap. >> by the end of the month, there will be a more permanent relief system. >> reporter: the coast guard is stopping short of praying the oil joint saying there is plenty of room for improvement when it comes to the public relations. >> people are impacted by this in terms of claims. >> reporter: and while the public is angry, in northerly

en, they refused to cancel oysterfest in light of the spill. >> it won belying at all. >> reporter: state officials were closing down another oyster bed. one nearby fisher man can't fish the waters and is angry as his boat and crew go without work. >> we are fishermen. we are pro active. >> reporter: federal officials say 32% of of the entire gulf remains off limits because of the spill. orlando salinas, fox news. >> this morning, bp says the cost of the response so far is more than a billion dollars and that does not include $360 million to build six sand berms to protect marshes along the louisiana coast. straight ahead, tornadoes and thunderstorms ripped through the midwest leaving behind a deadly path of destruction. we have at latest.

a terrorism bust up north. an fbi raid on a home and two arrests at jfk airport. details up next. you are watching fox 5 morning news. 

midwest storms have killed at least seven people including the proud father of a valedictorian at a high school near toledo that had to reschedule its graduation. in illinois, a major storm ripped through the central part of the state. a tornado destroyed buildings and uprooted trees there. in michigan, the storm damage left behind in the town of dundee, some said it looked mother like a war zone. a power plant south of detroit was vut shutt down after severe storms ripped the siding off the building. officials are making sure the plant is safe before it goes back into operation. soy the vice president is in egypt this morning. joe biden just met with

president hosni mubarak in the last hour. biden and mubarak are holding talks on a range of topics. israeli ambassador to the united states is responding to tough questions several days of a deadly raid on that flotilla. nine people including a 19-year- old american were killed in monday's attack. it sparked international anger and has complicated u.s. relations with israel. but israel remains defiant. >> israel has at built and the right to investigate itself, not to be investigated by any international board. i don't think the united states would want an international inquiry into its military activities in afghanistan, for example. >> the israeli navy intercepted another ship carrying aid to gaza on saturday. this time, nobody was injured. a terrorism bust in new york. investigators arrested two men at jfk airport accusing them of trying to leave the united

states to join jihaddists affiliated with al-qaeda. the fbi raided two homes in north jersey. the men are both u.s. citizens. authorities say they were planning to fly to somalia and join a violent extremist group. investigators say the suspects posed no immediate threat an have been under investigation since 2006. they are scheduled to be in court later today. tomorrow, major primary elects are taking place across the country including in virginia. voters in the commonwealth will held he'd to the polls republican primary for virginia's congressional district seats with jim moran in the eighth and jerry connelly in the 11th. polls will be open from six in the morning until seven in the evening. american university professor and fox five political analyst lenny steinhorn will be joining us later this morning to talk more about the races to watch. that is at 7:00 this morning. straight ahead, a major breakthrough in the fight

against skin cancer. details of what scientists are calling a significant new drug. do you know what your children are chatting about when they're texting? in some cases, the messages they send or receive could be troublesome. we have some tips for monitoring your children on the internet and on those text messages. >> we'll give you a look at the forecast in just a couple of minutes. and julie wright will an long -- be along to tell us about the morning traffic. stay with us.

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we are back this morning at 15 minutes until 4:00. and some storms on sunday left behind area damage. this is a tree that came toppling down into a car on southeast. the car's owner says she and her boyfriend were at eastern market to celebrate her birthday and the couple came back to find the tree smashed into her car. >> tons of neighbors have been coming by taking pictures and telling us they heard what sounded like a car accident. people up side say it woke their children and we're just lucky we weren't in it and it wasn't worse really. >> the driver says her insurance should cover most of the damage. >> wow! >> that is really bad. that is awful. >> yikes! >> the storms are out of here

and hopefully the muggy conditions too. >> a cold front came through t has taken the humidity out with it. we are not completely rain- free. there is still a little bit of precipitation out there but it will shape up to be a very nice day with much more comfortable conditions across the area. i want to start by showing you hd radar. we are seeing light shower activity. it is not significant but it is out there so you want to be aware of it. the precipitation is dissipating as we speak. but still, in frederick, maryland, we are seeing some precip. just a little bit just north of leesburg. there is frederick there. and we are across the front front royal area. we are seeing light shower activity but again, this is all dissipating as it moves eastward. right now, i don't think much it was will make it into across the beltway. i don't think maybe a brief shower into western portions of the beltway but that is going to be about it. it is wrapping up as it moves to the east. let's go back to the graphics. show you the current

temperatures and gurvir is right. much more comfortable start to the day. currently, it is 64 degrees in washington. gaithersburg is at 55 degrees. 57 in manassas and then you take a look at the big pick as we pull this out. you can see that across the eastern united states, we see cooler air in place behind that cold front up in the north. 59 in new york city. 47 in binghamton. down to the south, you've still got the warmer air at 70 degrees right now at cape hatteras. your surface map for today. there is your cold front that. has come through so instead of seeing highs in the 90s like we've been seeing and the humidity. cooler air arrives. we'll get relief from the heat and humidity. for today, i think our temperature will be below normal after seeing temperatures about 10 degrees above normal. we'll be below by a couple of degrees today. forecast looks like this, mostly sunny, light wind. we'll have partly sunny skies with some of those clouds coming through. not as humid. a cooler day today with a high of 79 degrees. then for tonight, not bad,

mostly clear. very comfortable. overnight low in town about 63 degrees. your five-day forecast tomorrow, 80. that is still below normal. chance of some showers and thunderstorms tomorrow night. wednesday is our best chance of rain and thunderstorm activity during the course of the day but still a nice temperature, 77. some clouds on thursday, maybe an early morning shower and then things start to get better by friday, 82 degrees. now, let's get an update on traffic from julie wright. >> i got to say welcome back. we missed you last week. hope you enjoyed the couple of days off. >> thank you very much. nice to be off but nice to be back. >> we do have lanes open. early morning commute looking good. no incidents to report if you are traveling here. lanes are open down south of town at the wilson bridge. coming inbound on 66 leaving centreville early this morning still at speed as you continue

east of 28 headed in towards fair oaks. westbound at 7100, they are busy clearing construction from the two right lanes but that is in the outbound direction. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. before a health alert for you on this monday morning. a major breakthrough in the fight against skin cancer. scientists say they found an experimental drug that significantly improved survival for some stricken with melanoma. the drug helps the immune system fight tumors. the fda has pledged a quick review an doctors think the drug could be available by the end of this year. apple's worldwide developers conference kicks off today. thousands are gather in san francisco for the week-long event. apple is expected to unveil the much-anticipated iphone 4 g. most experts are predicting a screen with up to four times more detail a camera flash, noise cancellation and a longer battery life. a new kind of candy hit store shelves and it is not

getting good reviews. the pop pills candy is being sold at lisa perry stores in new york city. critics say it sends a message that popping pills is fun. the pills come in seven flavors each with their own prescription, gum balls to make you smile, jelly beans that are, quote, better than botox. sexting, texting, how do you monitor who or what your child is talking to and how can parents protect them from too much technology. valerie calhoun found answers. >> there is a lot of drama with technology really. >> mean words. >> girls can be very, very mean. >> girls will tell their guys about having a good weekend or something hike that and the guys will tell their friends an everybody will know. >> reporter: 90% of all eight

to 18-year-olds have viewed internetpersonning on fry. >> welcome to i -- a new frontier of parenting on the internet. teens use these many computers to connect with their friends and the world beyond. >> parents need to know there are no boundaries to the telephone or the texting or pook. >> i get my first text message around #:00. >> reporter: 16-year-old cody foreman would much rather text than talk. >> it is easier. >> you have to hope your child is doing and teching right thing. >> when we were kids, we would talk on the phone maybe for hours ate time but our parents can walk by and get a sense of the conversation, a tone of the conversation, who we were talking to, get a feel for that and maybe put on appropriate boundaries there. >> reporter: texting is is much more impersonal and a conversation can get out of hand. >> you are not eye to eye with them so you can say weirder stuff. >> there are bad pictures of people naked or something like that and they send it around

and a lot of people end up getting that picture and rumors started. >> it starts a whole lot of junk. >> reporter: what is a parent to do? first, you need to start talking. open a dialogue with your kids. brian houseman wrote the book on engaging your teen's world and he says you have to let your kids know that you are on their side. >> if someone sends you something that is inappropriate, want you to trust me that i'm not here to get angry at you. inanot going to be disappointed in you. i want to help you swr handle this. >> reporter: sheila remembers the days of the big clunky phones, no text, no internet. >> so who is this little boy down there? >> reporter: she is quickly learning when it comes to protecting her ninth grade daughter, talk is cheap and ask is everything. >> that is what parents have to do. they have to monitor. they just don't give their children all of this stuff and

then expect them to just not, you know, do things. >> reporter: experts say if you aren't looking over their shoulder, you have already lost control. >> chances are there are a lot of your parents that your daughter has already been a victim of cyberharrassment. someone has taken an inappropriate picture or sent an inappropriate message about your daughter to someone else. >> reporter: social media like facebook is the new bathroom wall where mean girls and boys use posts to spread rumors. problem is once it is on the worldwide web, can't just paint over it or wipe it off. it is there forever. >> a lot of things that happen to facebook that gets right into school. >> reporter: houseman says 64% of teens admit they've done things online they don't want their parents to know about. he says they actually want you to set boundaries. >> go through their phone. >> most teenagers say that the time they struggle the most with technology is when they are on their own. >> reporter: it is up to you. sit down with your teen at least once a week being review

a log of their texts, social media and computer usage. >> not because we distrust you but because we want to be on the same page of using this stuff appropriately. >> you may be surprisedded to know how the surveillance make your kids feel. >> i feel very protected by my mother and father. >> you will feel better knowing you've taken the first step to protect your children from cyberbullies. d.c. schools chancellor michelle rhee is facing more heat this morning. still ahead, did she break finance rules in terms of teacher contracts in hopes of keeping her job. coming up next in sports, we are getting set for one. biggest debuts in nationals history. the debut of the stephen strasburg. we'll hear from nats veterans. you are watching fox 5 news. 

welcome back. taking a look at sports now. rafael nidal is the king of play now as he claimed his seventh grand slam crown. he joins bjorb -- bjor borg. a big day ahead for the nats. they are expected to draft 17- year-old catcher bryce harper with the number one pick on the mlb draft. how good is harper? he skipped the last two years

of high school and got his ged so he could play ball. stephen strasburg went a combined 7-2 with 65 strikeouts. >> it will be an exciting game but like i said, i'm going to be back there to try on work with him. i'm going to relax him before the game and go play the game. >> he has a lot of spotlight on him and things like that. he has handled it well so far from what i've seen. i think he will be fine. just go up there and do what he has done so far in his career and he'll be just find out there. >> a lot of people will be watching. we have a lot more still ahead on fox 5 morning news. stay with us. we begin now at 5:00. good morning to you. it is monday more than, june 7th, 2010. we show